A new way to determine which patients will respond best to bowel cancer treatment

MedicalXpress | avr. 14, 2026

Nearly 10,000 cases of advanced bowel cancer are diagnosed in England each year, with cases in young adults rising. There are limited options for treating advanced bowel cancer. Scientists have now developed an AI-powered method that could determine which patients with advanced bowel cancer are most likely to respond to a targeted drug used on the NHS—potentially sparing thousands of patients from treatments that won't work for them.